We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. To recap, both the SRS-RA3000 and SRS-RA5000 have "ambient room-filling sound," according to Sony. The company says its spatial audio ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Stereo and surround sound are fine and dandy, but what's the next big thing in consumer audio?

Before music is beamed into our brain via infrared laser beam, we’ll have to make do with the current next evolutionary step in headphone audio. That’s spatial audio, the listening experience that ...

A live performance by Zara Larsson will stream in Sony’s 360 Reality Audio on Monday. There’s also a new creative suite plugin for 360 Reality Audio that’s compatible with “popular digital audio ...

I wrote an in-depth review of Sony’s 360 Reality Audio system last year, and I was quite impressed with the spaciousness of the sound it produced in headphones. Introduced in 2019, 360 Reality Audio ...

Very expensive 360 audio tracks are in short supply Regular music lacks precision compared to rival speakers No AirPlay 2 support No battery and the power supply is big The Sony SRS-RA5000 doesn't ...

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The larger of Sony's first two 360 Reality Audio speakers is a beast. The device is big and powerful, capable of solid 360RA performance and upscaling regular music to make it sound more immersive.

Sony’s immersive music format is being removed from TIDAL this month, leaving Amazon Music as the only major streaming platform to support the format. Sony 360 Reality Audio allows artists, producers ...

I’m sitting in the middle of a Live Nation mixing studio in Hollywood, surrounded by speakers—some low against the wall, some perched higher up. When a live version of Jesse McCartney’s “Soul” comes ...

At CES this year, Sony's press conference distinctly lacked any major new announcements. Instead, the focus was on its ambitious plan to link high-quality video and audio tech. Sony did, however, ...

Both the Sony HT-A7000 and HT-A5000 soundbars will receive an update enabling 360 Spatial Audio, which will also require the existing SA-RS3S wireless rear speaker kit or Sony’s new battery-powered SA ...